Status Report of the Virtual Campus

Last Monday and Wednesday, the status report of ORT Virtual Campus was presented at Almagro campus. Following Diana Grimbe’s welcome words (Principal of this campus), Guillermo Lutzky, Director of the project, presented the different areas that constitute the Virtual Campus: the Intranet, the e-learning platform, and the weblogs net, and talked about the objectives accomplished at each of them.

Mario Cwi had a conversation with the teachers of the English, Social Sciences, Mathematics, and Jewish Education department about their work experience with the e-learning platform, and about the teaching materials they produced with other colleagues of the area, and with the collaboration of Cintia Plotkin and Nora Quaglia.

Jimena Castellión, Andrea Levin and Geraldine Kahan, from the English Department, showed a material called “Traveling abroad”, where –as far as they said- “knowing English is the excuse to carry out a series of activities that one would normally do when traveling abroad, and to develop other competences”.

Then, Fabián Beremblum and Jorge Wozniak, of the Social Sciences area, presented material on the French Revolution, which combines a variety of sources and audio-visual formats.

Ariel Blatman and Mauro Rey, of the Mathematics area, showed material which suggests approaching the theme of the infinite through different philosophy and literature works, comic strips and other graphic resources.

Finally, Aliza Berman and Ruthy Szewach, of the Jewish Education area, told their work experience with the platform, and stood out the motivation and enthusiasm that students felt by working with images, maps and other audio-visual formats.

In the second part of the meeting, the teachers that used blogs as a tool to work in their classrooms talked about the experience, how students welcomed blogs, and how these contributed to the learning process.